Adapted by Terry Collins and Duncan Eagleson. Art by Duncan Eagleson. The epic story of the Mayfair Witches begins here.

Within a New Orleans mansion, three maiden aunts cared for a strangely quiet girl named Deirdre. Deirdre sat nearly catatonic on the porch, never speaking to anyone, although a succession of nurses had quit citing vague “attacks.” She had a regimen of thorazine injections that would have killed someone unaccustomed to the drugs, and her aunts seemed content to leave her that way. Her only visitor was a man who seemed to disappear into the mist moments after he was seen. That man was the devil. The aunts were witches. Deirdre was the chosen one.